My birthday present to self, Empira treadle from a fellow QB'er, It's different!
05-19-2014, 08:07 PM
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My birthday present to self, Empira treadle from a fellow QB'er, It's different!
Actually I was cruising CL ads a little further from home. Searching for treadle. Found 2 beautiful machines for only $50 apiece. Plus, getting them would require driving over to the coast, and what the heck, today is actually my birthday, so we spent the night over there too. All round great trip. The wonderful QB'er who made let this happen, is "nickylsf". My partner Mary and I got a great tour of her quilts, and some instruction on paper piecing, as well as checking out the exceptional Free Motion Quilting that she does.
Here's a picture of the artist with one of her quilts, [ATTACH=CONFIG]476174[/ATTACH] A closer look at some of her FMQ [ATTACH=CONFIG]476175[/ATTACH] We both learned a lot, and Mary is quite inspired to try putting it to practice. But here are my birthday presents. 1st is a Damascus Grand Rotary treadle. [ATTACH=CONFIG]476177[/ATTACH]
But 2nd is this very unusual, and quite beautiful Empira treadle. Apparently the company got sued by Singer for advertising itself as the "new Singer". The Griffin decals are eye catching. It came with several attachments, the needle appears to be a 15x1 and the shuttle is just a wee bit shorter than the one in my Singer 28, and looks very similar, and the bobbin is the same length. It turns freely, but has a lot of dried up caked on oil and lint residue, but I think it will clean up very nicely. and here she is [ATTACH=CONFIG]476178[/ATTACH]
Here's a picture of the artist with one of her quilts, [ATTACH=CONFIG]476174[/ATTACH] A closer look at some of her FMQ [ATTACH=CONFIG]476175[/ATTACH] We both learned a lot, and Mary is quite inspired to try putting it to practice. But here are my birthday presents. 1st is a Damascus Grand Rotary treadle. [ATTACH=CONFIG]476177[/ATTACH]
But 2nd is this very unusual, and quite beautiful Empira treadle. Apparently the company got sued by Singer for advertising itself as the "new Singer". The Griffin decals are eye catching. It came with several attachments, the needle appears to be a 15x1 and the shuttle is just a wee bit shorter than the one in my Singer 28, and looks very similar, and the bobbin is the same length. It turns freely, but has a lot of dried up caked on oil and lint residue, but I think it will clean up very nicely. and here she is [ATTACH=CONFIG]476178[/ATTACH]
05-19-2014, 08:38 PM
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Sorry the Singer slipped in there, it doesn't like to be ignored, and it would not delete. Here are some more pics of Empira. A couple other neat features, it appears that the attachments are pretty similar to old style ones on the Singer 28. AND, the really neat thing is, it will REVERSE by raising the stitch length lever! [ATTACH=CONFIG]476180[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]476181[/ATTACH]
It's shuttle next to the Singer 28's. [ATTACH=CONFIG]476182[/ATTACH] The attachments, which I'm not quite sure how or if they all go to it.[ATTACH=CONFIG]476183[/ATTACH] Another feature that I hadn't seen before, the Serial number was stamped in at least 4 places! [ATTACH=CONFIG]476184[/ATTACH] as well as in front of the pillar, after removing some of the black grunge [ATTACH=CONFIG]476185[/ATTACH]. A view of the back, "before" [ATTACH=CONFIG]476186[/ATTACH]
And under the plates, pretty grungy there too, "what FUN!"[ATTACH=CONFIG]476187[/ATTACH]
It's shuttle next to the Singer 28's. [ATTACH=CONFIG]476182[/ATTACH] The attachments, which I'm not quite sure how or if they all go to it.[ATTACH=CONFIG]476183[/ATTACH] Another feature that I hadn't seen before, the Serial number was stamped in at least 4 places! [ATTACH=CONFIG]476184[/ATTACH] as well as in front of the pillar, after removing some of the black grunge [ATTACH=CONFIG]476185[/ATTACH]. A view of the back, "before" [ATTACH=CONFIG]476186[/ATTACH]
And under the plates, pretty grungy there too, "what FUN!"[ATTACH=CONFIG]476187[/ATTACH]
05-19-2014, 08:45 PM
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Last but not least, what makes the drive enjoyable are things like this! Yachats, [ATTACH=CONFIG]476188[/ATTACH]view from the coffee shop in Newport this am.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]476189[/ATTACH]A "tall ship" in the harbor [ATTACH=CONFIG]476190[/ATTACH] A great trip all around!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]476189[/ATTACH]A "tall ship" in the harbor [ATTACH=CONFIG]476190[/ATTACH] A great trip all around!
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